Techland's next chapter and the road ahead

Pawel writes: "Today I am happy to announce the partnership with Tencent who are in the process of becoming Techland's majority shareholder."

[SimpleSlave]

"We will retain full ownership of our IPs, maintain creative freedom, and continue to operate the way we believe is right. I'm also going to continue serving as the studio’s CEO."

Unless it angers China and Winnie the Poop. Then I'm out of a job and we'll be fu...Ahem. Anyways. Please clap and be excited!

Thank you!

o( _ _ )o All Hail our Megacorp Overlord! Hail Hydra!!

[Christopher]

I question this stuff sometimes because it seems too good to be true. Same thing with Bungie. Is it really that they can make those decisions or can the owner, much like a Starbucks that just closes down a branch that attempts to unionize, truly in power and can just replace those with people that will just agree with them?

[SimpleSlave]

It's all PR talks. They're trying not to spook the fan base and partners for now. At the end of the day, owning the majority means Tencent has the final say. And they WILL crack down on Techland if they do anger the Overlords.

On the plus side, I'm sure Tencent will pass sweeping internal changes making sure this never happens. So no worries there...

[P_Bomb]

New open world fantasy action rpg is going well apparently. Been watching some Dying Light 2 endgame as well. We’ll see how it all turns out.

[neutralgamer1992]

Dead island 2 is a better game than dying light 2. So whatever you do please make more fun games

[got_dam]

I seem to be in a minority here... but... I really like dying light 2. Yeah, they neutered the night time scares but the overall gameplay was way better. And you can block without that shitty riot shield.

[CoNn3rB]

Same as you, I enjoyed my time with Dying Light 2, I don't think it was as good as the first one but it was a pretty good game overall.

There's a new update that is either out now or coming very soon that is supposed to reinvigorate the night-time sections of the game among other things. Might be worth playing again with that update as they've also added a lot of other QoL changes as well.

[Masterchief_thegoat]

china and winnie the pooh getting majority shareholder is not a great.

[crazyCoconuts]

More consolidation... Not good.
I really hope that the main "asset" with a company like tech land is it's people, and if you jerk around the people, they'll leave and make great games for someone else, maybe start something new.
Maybe tools like unreal will lower the barriers to entry to make this easier?
Dunno, trying to be optimistic that this, too, will pass.
Ultimately if they can't make good games, the investment will fail and the good people will move on.. I hope

[KwietStorm_BLM]

I read the headline thinking people were being laid off and the studio would be in question moving forward. Turns out it's even worse.

[TheColbertinator]

Another studio lost to those Commie leeches

[aaronaton]

Tencent BAD, Microsoft GOOD.....The hypocrisy.

[Hedstrom]

Better than being bought by MS or Sony and becoming exclusive.

[joestrummer77]

Great news, that should now get the funding to develop a new game.

[ocelot07]

Think I rather these than microsoft buying everyone tbh.

[ROCKY28]

See we will
See -- we -- will